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to Egyptian workers since early dynastic times, while Hittite arms were already
bolstered by iron lance-heads and axes.
Curiously, the Bronze Age exactly parallels another, although intimately
related mystery: the excavation of prodigious amounts of the world’s highest-
grade copper ore from the Upper Great Lakes Region of North America.
Beginning circa 3000 B.C., a people, described in Menomonie Indian oral tradition
as fair-complected “Marine Men,” applied sophisticated mining techniques
that would not be seen again
until the Industrial Age. They
extracted a minimum of 500
million pounds of copper, all of
which vanished with the white-
skinned miners by 1200 B.C.,
when the pits were suddenly
abandoned. That is the same
date for the final destruction
of Atlantis, whose inhabitants
Plato described as the world’s
wealthiest minerologists.
Clearly, it was the seafaring
“Marine Men” of Atlantis who
discovered the Upper Peninsula’s rich mineral deposits, mined them, and sold
high-grade copper to the tool and weapons manufacturers of Europe, Asia Minor,
and the Near East. Together with copper, tin was mined along Michigan shores,
evidence for the manufacture of bronze, with which the Native American Indian
residents were unfamiliar. The North American source was jealously preserved
as a state secret upon which the Atlantean monopoly depended. When Atlantis was
destroyed around 1200 B.C., the secret went with her and the Bronze Age ended
for lack of quality copper supplies. The three most influential and interrelated
aspects of ancient times—the Bronze Age, Atlantis, and the Upper Great Lakes
copper mining—share the same time parameters.Bull Worship
InKritias, Plato describes an important ceremony undertaken by the kings of
Atlantis in the Temple of Poseidon. This monumental structure was situated at the
very center of the island, its own perfect center defined by a free-standing column
of great antiquity. It was made of solid orichalcum, an alloy of high-grade copper
and fine gold manufactured only in Atlantis. The pillar contained the original
laws of the land, as inscribed by the first monarchs themselves. Around its base,
subsequent Atlantean leaders consulted every fifth and sixth year on matters of state.
Before ruling on any final judgements, they prayed to Poseidon for guidance,
then removed clubs and nooses from a sacred vessel. Without assistance, the 10
men captured one of several bulls allowed to roam freely in the vicinity of the temple,Bear Butte, South Dakota, where Native Americans
from across the continent gather to commemorate the
Atlantean Deluge.